Harrier OSS v1 270M

Mar 2026
Harrier OSS v1 270M
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39.5MTEB Medical v1
Mar 2026released
640Dimensions
33K tokensMax input
en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

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1Gemini Embedding 2 Preview98.52Harrier OSS v1 27B93.63Octen Embedding 8B93.14Qwen 3 Embedding 8B935KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 251192.8
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9Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.810Harrier OSS v1 270M91.411Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small90.9

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Mean over tasks · Japanese69.3#15
JMTEB v2 · Mean over task types · Japanese69.8#11
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese54.3#14
JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese68.7#11
JMTEB v2 · Retrieval · Japanese69.4#19
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese83.1#19
JMTEB v2 · Reranking · Japanese73.3#18
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)91.4#10
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)47.1#28
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.5#71
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)57.1#59
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)20.1#24
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French59.3#77
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)83.3#58
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi77.7#27
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)51.1#27
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)47.3#27
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch55.9#30
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch60.9#33
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch62.6#26
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch41.3#23
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch55.8#44
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch72.4#58
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch36.5#28
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch72#58
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch85.4#85
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese23.1#19
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-0.5#71
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-0.5#71
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-0.5#71
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish69.1#41
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai56.1#23
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai76.9#34
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)80.1#13
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian59.3#45
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)66.5#14
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)56.9#17
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)70.8#12
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)52.5#26
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)75.4#23
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)80.1#38
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)66.4#14
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)81.5#6
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.5#71
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)24#37
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)61.9#53

FAQ

How much does Harrier OSS v1 270M cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.

Is Harrier OSS v1 270M free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Harrier OSS v1 270M, and what is it best at?›

#49 of 220 in Embeddings.

Is Harrier OSS v1 270M better than Seed1.6 Embedding 1215?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages), Harrier OSS v1 270M scores 91.4 vs 91.8 — about the same.

When was Harrier OSS v1 270M released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-03-27. It is the current version in its line.

Is Harrier OSS v1 270M open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Harrier OSS v1 270M locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is Harrier OSS v1 270M?›

Harrier OSS v1 270M is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Microsoft, released Mar 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Harrier OSS v1 270M?›

Harrier OSS v1 27B (better), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).